Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. From Ego to Selfhood: A Question of Method
1.1 Distanciation and Phenomenology
1.2 Ricoeur's Critique of Phenomenological Idealism
1.3 A Hermeneutical Variation of Phenomenology
1.4 A Dialectic of Phenomenological Hermeneutics
2. Imagination: Mediated Self-Constitution
2.1 Creative Imaginativity
2.2 Freedom and Nature
2.3 Fault and Failure
2.4 Fallible Man
3. Metaphorical Reformulation: Toward Mutual Selfhood
3.1 From Semantic of Discourse to the Work of Resemblance
3.2 The Work of Resemblance
3.3 Reference and Reality
4. Narrative Imagination and Personal Identity
4.1 Narrative Identity
4.2 The Mimetic Arc
4.3 Narrative Identity Between Art and Life
5. Identity and Selfhood
5.1 Identity and Language
5.2 Identity and Sameness
5.3 Identity, Selfhood, and Ontology
Conclusion
Ethical Reciprocity or Mutuality?
Identifying Selfhood
Notes
Bibliography
Index